Big Red Adventure1995The Big Red Adventure is a point-and-click adventure taking place in Russia after Michael Gorbatsjov's Perestroika. You move your character over hand-drawn backgrounds, solving a big mystery that's taking place over an entire continent. The story is split into three parts and in each part you control one of three characters...

Biosys1999Biosys is one of those absorbing adventures where you start off feeling that you have to carry on to survive. It's a game that sucks you in, like a good book or a gripping film. You feel like you have to find out what happens next... The plot is easy to...

Black Cauldron, The1986From the silver screen to your computer screen comes The Black Cauldron, based upon the 25th animated feature from Walt Disney Pictures. In this early project from Leisure Suit Larry creator Al Lowe, assume the role of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper on his way to rescue the oracular pig, Hen...

Black Dahlia1998Take2 Interactive hit the mark with Black Dahlia, a game boasting top quality full-motion video, but the real news is movement effects. Never have I seen such a full degree of freedom implemented to create such fantastic, fluid character movements. Combined with a great plot and story, the outstanding video,...

Black Mirror, The2003Black Mirror is an adventure game starring Samuel Gordon, a man who left England for 12 years in an attempt to forget about his troubled past. Yet Samuel has been unable to put the past completely behind him, so he returns home to the Black Mirror, a manor that has...

Black Sanctum, The1984The Black Sanctum begins in a rugged, snow-covered mountain country. Your task is to rid the ancient monastery of evil that has taken over. Your task is compounded by the fact that the entrance to the ancient monastery is hidden and cloaked in secrecy. This graphical interactive fiction game uses standard...

Black Sect1993A book of spells has been stolen. A sinister Community is terrorizing a small village in the Yorkshire Moors. It is time for you to help. Go and search for the book of spells that has disappeared. Your trail takes many days and nights over the lonely moors. You may...

BlackStar: Agent of Justice1995You are Blackstar in this adventure game, in which you must solve puzzling murders. There are two episodes in the shareware series. ...

Blackwell Legacy, The2006One of the unexpected highlights of my spring gaming has been an introduction to the outstanding work of Dave Gilbert, the multi-talented head of Wadjet Eye Games. At a time when questions are being raised about the relative value of next-generation graphics - the old "style vs. substance" controversy -...

Blade Runner1997There are far too few examples of excellent games based on movies. Despite the huge back catalogue of films at developers' disposal, we still find ourselves drowning in a sea of uninspired action titles, based on low-brow Hollywood blockbusters. But despite this unfortunate situation the game industry finds itself in,...

Blue Force1993May 15 1984. In a bar, shortly after a shady deal took place two men enter the bar. They are undercover cops, and once the criminal notices them, he flees the bar, and as his motorcycle skims past town, the pick-up truck used by the undercover cops isn't capable of...

Blue Ice1995Nothing in the frozen landscape of Icia could indicate to a visitor in which state this country has been plunged for thousands of years. Generations after generations, the new rules that were adopted, slowly transformed the society into a rigid structure strangled by an omnipotent conformism. There was no place...

Bone: Out from Boneville2005The creators of LucasArts' sadly canceled Sam and Max: Freelance Police band together to bring a different thoughtful comedy adventure to PC gamers. Based on the comic compilation by Jeff Smith, Bone: Out From Boneville follows the adventures of the three Bone cousins. Fone Bone is the classic everyman hero,...

Bone: The Great Cow Race2006Telltale Games continues its interactive interpretation of Jeff Smith's beloved Bone comics with this second release in the series. Bone: The Great Cow Race follows the adventures of the three Bone cousins -- Fone, Phoney, and Smiley -- who are peculiar guests in a mythical, medieval countryside. Picking up where...

Border Zone1987Washington and Moscow are the capitals of the Superpowers, but the cold War is fought at the front: in Eastern Bloc countries like Frobnia and adjacent neutral countries like Litzenburg. In these countries, where all strangers are suspect and all actions observed, paranoia and vulnerability are inescapable. In these countries,...

Borrowed Time (a.k.a. Time to Die)1985In the game set in mid 1930s you are a private investigator Sam Harlow, who has to solve the kidnapping of his ex-wife Rita Sweeney. At the beginning, you run away from two thugs, who want to kill you for some reason. They fail and you begin to search the...

Braminar1987Fed up at text adventure "guess the verb" puzzles, the author has followed up the earlier Fantasia and concocted what he describes as "boolean interactive fiction" -- a game consisting of purely textual input and output occasionally prompting the player for confirmation of likely, valid actions in the style of...

Breakers1986They're expecting the Messiah any day now. If you're not him, you'd better have a real good story. The realm of the Breakers wait for their Messiah to come to them the same day you arrive. How to convince them? Good luck. Not only is this text adventure REAL TIME but...

Brimstone1985This real time all-text tale puts you in the role of Sir Gawain, a knight of the Round Table. It takes place in a dream that traps you in the underworld of Ulro, where you must learn five magic words in order to escape. The most unusual aspect of this...

Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror1997Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror is Revolution Software's follow-up to their extraordinary graphic adventure Circle of Blood (called Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars in Europe). Like its predecessor, The Smoking Mirror is a visually beautiful game that puts its two central characters, George Stobbart and his girlfriend Nico...

Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon2003The inquisitive George Stobbart and the streetwise Nicole Collard return for their third game in the Broken Sword adventure series. The most notable change is the move from 2D hand-drawn backgrounds to a full 3D environment, complete with direct character control as opposed to the point-and-click interface adopted by its...

Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars1996Circle of Blood, released in Europe as Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars, puts players in the role of the vacationing American George Stobbart, who finds himself at the center of a mystery after surviving a bomb blast outside a Parisian café. With screens designed by the renowned Don...

Bud Tucker in Double Trouble1996This wacky adventure puts the player in the shoes of Bud Tucker, a pizza delivery boy during the day and lab assistant at nights. One day, Bud found the Professor missing and later learns he's been kidnapped by the evil Dick Tate! Tate, an insane, whiny sob wishes to create...

Bureau 131995Bureau 13 is a perfect example of a good idea gone wrong. The premise of a secret federal agency dedicated to the investigation of paranormal activities conjures up visions of all sorts of delicious possibilities. Unfortunately, Bureau 13 doesn't deliver on the potential of this premise. For starters, the very...

Bureaucracy1987Once upon a time, a man moved from one apartment in London to another. He dutifully notified everyone of his new address, including his bank; he went to the bank and filled out a change of address form himself. The man was very happy in his new apartment. Then, one...

Cadaver1991In the person of the thief Karadoc, players set out to raid the five stories of the castle Wulf. Legend has it that it's filled with treasure. What the legend didn't say is that the Castle is also filled with deadly traps, riddles and monsters. Surviving is not only a question...

Cadaver: The Payoff1991Dianos is dead. The Cadaver contract has been fulfilled. But Karadoc finds that collecting his reward proves more difficult than he had ever imagined... Cadaver: The Payoff continues the story where Cadaver left off and offers four more isometric levels of fiendish puzzles and evil baddies to defeat. ...

Calixto Island1984In the island of Calixto, a valuable treasure has been stolen from the museum. It's up to you to recover it and discover the mystery behind its disappearance! Being an interactive fiction with graphics game allows objects and items to be graphically visual, thus gives the player an idea on...

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon1997Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is the central thread that weaves the tapestry of five mini-adventures into a main storyline that is really the sixth, save-the-universe episode. Action, innovative scenarios, decent puzzles and an abundance of good humor abound in this creative romp through space and time. Your character is wisecracking, fun-loving,...

Calsoon2001Calsoon is a short but sweet freeware adventure game from GASPOP Software. The story goes as follows: "Tork is a perfectly normal guy, well, almost normal at least. He loves to collect underwear. But one day, as he was about to actually put on some trousers for a change, Tork...